diff --git a/CHANGELOG.txt b/CHANGELOG.txt
--- a/CHANGELOG.txt
+++ b/CHANGELOG.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+0.7.8, 2016-07-01:
+	Add dependency on transformers-compat to allow using
+	Control.Monad.Trans.Except also with older library versions.
+
 0.7.7, 2016-06-28:
 	Update test dependencies to allow HUnit-1.3.
 
diff --git a/CREDITS.txt b/CREDITS.txt
--- a/CREDITS.txt
+++ b/CREDITS.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 In alphabetical order by surname:
 
 Stephen Hicks
-Matti   Niemenmaa
+Matti Niemenmaa
+Masahiro Sakai
diff --git a/Glob.cabal b/Glob.cabal
--- a/Glob.cabal
+++ b/Glob.cabal
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Cabal-Version: >= 1.9.2
 
 Name:        Glob
-Version:     0.7.7
+Version:     0.7.8
 Homepage:    http://iki.fi/matti.niemenmaa/glob/
 Synopsis:    Globbing library
 Category:    System
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@
                 , dlist        >= 0.4 && < 0.8
                 , filepath     >= 1.1 && < 1.5
                 , transformers >= 0.2 && < 0.6
+                , transformers-compat >= 0.3 && < 0.6
 
    if impl(ghc < 8.0)
       Build-Depends: semigroups >= 0.18 && < 0.19
@@ -58,6 +59,7 @@
                 , dlist                      >= 0.4 && < 0.8
                 , filepath                   >= 1.1 && < 1.5
                 , transformers               >= 0.2 && < 0.6
+                , transformers-compat        >= 0.3 && < 0.6
                 , HUnit                      >= 1.2 && < 1.4
                 , QuickCheck                 >= 2 && < 3
                 , test-framework             >= 0.2 && < 1